The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1887-01-20
COUNTRY LIFE AND WORK.
SUNRISE AND SUNSET.

i sUNslsE.
Flame-bearted lover Of the esrth-great SIM.
Rise from thy purple couch: stretch forth
Through mornings parted curtains: LET the
| or waiting love which II were death to sur
Persuade thy clasp. Now hath the earth begun
To loose her robes Of inlet: with mock alarna
she yields her beauty. which loves longing
warns.
Forestalling the embrace thy kiss hath won.
Arise, great god Of iigh. and life, arise:
Enfold the fond earth in the deathless glowing
or thy fierce love: bend from the ehimmering
skies,
Which burn before thee in thine onward going.
No cheer have we and not Of thy wing;
Thou art the JOY Of I'll hope-lifted eyes.
SUNSET.
Within thy burning palace In the west
Thou art awhile Withdrawn. Yet doth thy face
Look from the closing portal for space
Back to the earth. which thy dear love hath
blessed:
While che with tears and soft signs half repress-
Behoids thee sinking in thy re-tDg-placs.
As with up gathered folds Of deuy lace
She hugs remembrance to her yearning breast.
Thy glory darkens, and the careful night
Hangs ont the moons pale lamp while yet the
flush
On evenings face-with thy departing light
Turne from roee-pink to crims0n. til the blush
Wraps thy warm bride, who waits thy waking
might.
Century.
now TO FEED HORSES.
According to the New York Star. the following
IL the method OF feeding the horses Of the Adams
Express Co., in New York:
I'm the morning, the frst thing, we give our
horses each about seven pounds Of oats, with
about quart Of ehelled corn and double hand
fpl Of good hay. At noon We give them good
peck OF chop. made Of ground or mashed corn,
whi.e middlings and b..n. Every other night
we give them about ten pounds Of hay, and
every night eight or ten pounds Of clean rye
straw for bedding. We don't give them hay
every night, because II We do they wont eat
their chop up clean. By giving It every other
night We nnd they always eat mp their feed.
We water them three times day-- before they
20 ont, when they come in, and after We clean
mn for the night. OF course the drivers, when
the horses are ont, give them water when they
feed it, In warm weather, instead Of cracked
horn and m:ddlings. We give corn meal and
wheat bran Our horses have TO do hard work,
ut we keep them in good condition. That b ,
general statement Of the way We feed horses.
OF course In particular cares. We have - u90
judgment
when ahorse is dull and blows over its feed,
the best thing is to take It away. The chances
are that the next time II will eat mp clean.
Don't allow = horse to stand blowing over ito
feed. NY men are particular also to clean the
hafO foQdteu and AylnW
any stale or sour feed to be left IN the Manager.
There is nothing like regularity In feeding.
When horses dom have enough = one time. ard
then perhaps too much at another, ron cannot
expect TO keep them well. ! ssid We gave the
horres hay every other night. That q matter
OF judgment II you Ind horses on their & cd
and eating 1t mp clean, you can give them hay
every night.
..You will notice when horses are fed clean
OTIS with nothing else they do not digest them. :
continued Mr.. smith. ..They get little OF no
benefit for them. In order TO make the horses
grind them up and maslicate them properly, you
should put handful Of hay with the oats.
Then they eat them. digest them, and get the
full benefit Of them. Oats make muscle: corn
makes fat. Men who own trotters feed little
corn, but the best oats. Corn 10 both fsttening
and strengthening ct the same time. II 10 .
mistake to feed horses one thing al the time.
They enjoy variety just ~ much - man does.
In the winter time good thing 70 give horse
is about ten ears Of good sound corn. Then
1t noon the feed 10 varied and again at night,
giving them change eacn time"
VALUE or COAL TAI.
The true value Of coal tar on the farm hes not
gene rally come to be recognized. As . preserv-
er OF wood 1t IL the best and the cheapest Of
anything we have. THE product may be obtain
ed from gas works ut y very slight cost, and
when properly applied goes great way In ito
use. Any wood surface 70 De exposcd part Of
the time to moisture. viii ne made to last very
perceptiblp longer when given covering Of tar.
Those who have tried dipping soft-wood poets,
such ~ willow and poplar certify that the wood
IL made to Last in the ground equal 70 the best
seasoned oak. Well curbing, the lower boards
of fences or buildings, barn floors, In fact any
thing exposed 10 moisture, will be well preserv-
tant it IL considered very valuable, and should be
applied to the wslie aud roosts OF poultry houses,
and to the so,led portions OF pig pens. The best
condition IN which 20 apply II. % rule. i while
hot. II II in this way the cheapest and forms z
much better preee rvatiye. yet it can be applied
~ iainf. hy thi, nny " tn tnrpentine when IN
q m. tied ca, 4 l;an 7h viii re fonEd more
exp. nsi.e, ~ tnIpenliLe costs about sxty cents
gallon The ordinary way Of tarring ports u
TO dip them: the prOceeA 10 convenient, and the
result most efectual. long, trongh-like vat,
provided with q sheet-iron bottom, and the
wno,e set over brick fireplace. makes very
convenient arrangement. Two men. each prC.
vided with hook made Of heavy wire, stand q
each end OF the vat, and are able to perform the
dipping with great deal Of speed. The timber
should be well seasoned 50 that al the openings,
resulting from cracking, may become filled with
the hot liquid aud rendered impsrvious TO wat
or. II boarded roofs be covered with tar. watel
will run from them with greatest freedom.
Cast-iron implements may be rendered rusl
proof by dipping in hot tar. and the covering
will be equal to the best Japan dnish.
GENERAL POINTS IN FEEDING.
The number or times that animals should b
| fed daily, writes Prof. Sanbsrn, has been mat
| ter OF much discussion and one Of diverse opin
| ions. held with many the system Of, and fol
| long time practiced, twice feeding daily fol
stock In the winter. Ry twice feeding mean
the giving to the animal sll that It will consnms
| curing two periods Of the day. This feeding
| does not necessarily consist OF one ration, bu
| many, and should consist of several, I and, q
every observing feeder finds, thst one large feed
is not 90 well eaten - the same amount IN sew
eral feeds. In large lots it lie 6rst picked over
| for the best, drooled upon. and the balance. a.
| ter the appetite has been partly eatiated. Il
eaten with reluctance and never In the amount
| il would have been consumed il In more ire
quent fresh lots. Steer cattle are spt to and do
by right OF might, take the hrst selections
| leaving the weaker ones good illustrations Of
Darwin doctrine OF the s'survival OF the dttcet.
Barns and rtalls may regulate this last difficulty
But will return to frequency Of feeding.
| review the objections of feeding remnants q
midday in the remark ueually made that thei
capacity of stomach Ii such that time for diges
| ton after filing the paunch 10 required. Thil
time Id winter, when stock are fed by regula
| rations, usually will require until $3.50 to masti
cate their breakfast, and from this TO $3.50. wheI
night feeding should begin, has been though
none to long for digestion. Hence feeding ,
| IL NJ. implies loading down the stomach befor
IL has done it's work with lis breakfast. II 90 I
was thought that nndigested food must pass Of
| from an cvertaxed system. Some foreign ex
periments and more recent personal observation
| have led me to make three regular feeding
periods for cattle, namely, morning, noon. m,
night. Prof. III. Mike found four feeds ofoat
better than one in digestion OF protein and fate
! RESTING LAND.
We like that good OLD Anglo-saxon word '.rest.
In this age many try to give 1t new meaning
They work al day and then after supper milk
dozen cows for ''rest." Mr.. Henderson In tn